Symposium
A Club of Their Own: Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World
Steven Beller, "The Right Mélange": Viennese Operetta as a Stage for Jewish Humor
Edward Portnoy, Purim on Pesach: The Invented Tradition of Passover Yontef-bletlekh in the Warsaw Yiddish Press
Stephen J. Whitfield, Jackie Mason: The Comedian as Ethnographer
Jarrod Tanny, Decoding Seinfeld's Jewishness
Michael Berkowitz, "Humour Wholesalers"? Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's Anglo-Jewish Television Comedy
Carol Zemel, Funny-Looking: Thoughts on Jewish Visual Humor
Anna Shternshis, Humor and Russian Jewish Identity
Avinoam Patt, "Laughter through Tears": Jewish Humor in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Kerstin Steitz, And Hannah Laughed: The Role of Irony in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem
Gabriel N. Finder, An Irony of History: Ephraim Kishon's German Triumph
Diego Rotman, The "Tsadik from Plonsk" and "Goldenyu": Political Satire in Dzigan and Shumacher's Israeli Comic Repertoire
Limor Shifman, Humor and Ethnicity on Israeli Television: A Historical Perspective
Asal Dardan, From Monsters to Pop Icons: The Use of Humor in Films on Nazis and Hitler since Der Untergang
David Slucki, Making Out in Anne Frank's Attic: Humor and the Holocaust in Australia
Essay
Richard I. Cohen, In Memoriam: Ezra Mendelsohn
Review Essay
Olga Litvak, The New Marranos
Book Reviews
(arranged by subject)
Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide
Esther Farbstein, Beseter hamadregah: hayahadut haortodoksit behungariyah nokha? hashoah
(Hidden in the Heights: Orthodox Jewry in Hungary during the Holocaust), Haim Genizi
Amos Goldberg, Traumah beguf rishon: ketivat yomanim bitkufat hashoah (Trauma in First
Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust), Omri Herzog
Michal Shaul, Pe'er tahat 'efer: hahevrah haharedit beyisrael betzel hashoah 1945-1961
(Beauty for Ashes: Holocaust Memory and the Rehabilitation of Ashkenazi Haredi
Society in Israel 1945-1961), Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
Ben Urwand, The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler, Ofer Ashkenazi
Cultural Studies
Joy Calico, Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe, Yoel Greenberg
Olga Gershenson, The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe, Olga Litvak
Ernest B. Gilman, Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900-1970, Jan Schwarz
Rina Lapidus, Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union, Olga Litvak
Harriet Murav, Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolutionary Russia, Olga Litvak
Efraim Sicher (ed.), Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about "Jews" in the Twenty- First Century, Mitchell B. Hart
Yosef Tobi and Tsivia Tobi, Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950, Norman (Noam) A. Stillman
History and Biography
Mordechai Altshuler, Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964, trans. Saadya Sternberg, Olga Litvak
Dianne Ashton, Hanukkah in America: A History, Hizky Shoham
Elissa Bemporad, Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, Olga Litvak
Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn, Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History, Eli Lederhendler
Cecile Esther Kuznitz, YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation, Eli Lederhendler
Jess Olson, Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity: Architect of Zionism, Yiddishism and Orthodoxy, David Weinberg
Yaacov Ro'i (ed.), The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union, Olga Litvak
David Shneer, Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War and the Holocaust, Olga Litvak
Lee-Shai Weissbach (ed. and trans.), A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden, Gur Alroey
Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East
Gideon Aran, Kookism: shoreshei Gush Emunim, tarbut hamitna?alim, teologiyah tziyonit, meshihiyut bizmanenu (Kookism: The Roots of Gush Emunim, Settler Culture, Zionist
Theology, and Contemporary Messianism), Tamar Ross
Israel Bartal and Shimon Shamir, Beit Salomon: sheloshah dorot shel mehadeshei hayishuv (The Salomons: Three Generations of Pioneers and Leaders), Reuven Gafni
Anat Helman, A Coat of Many Colors: Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel, Jenna Weissman Joselit
Mark LeVine and Mathias Mossberg (eds.), One Land, Two States: Israel and Palestine as Parallel States, Menachem Klein
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